Re: Advice on OCP Exams

Do you have any other technical experience? If you have programming experience, for example, why not a programming job where you would be exposed to oracle. This will give you the opportunity to learn something new. This is how I have learned all of my marketable skills. Luck, I guess.

• Paul

TBone wrote:

> Thanks for your advice and for answering my post. I am trying to get
> real life experience but no no will hire someone with no experience.
> I hope to get this cert to get my foot in the door and gain experience
> that way. I has never been my intention to "get rich quick", just to
> be certified so someone will be willing to give me a start. I
> understand that I will have to work from the bottom, and I look
> forward to putting the theory into practice and learning from the
> Senior Oracle people.
>
> Thank you for answering my question mnma! Thanks for your input
> everyone!
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:37:55 GMT, mnma_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> >Since nobody has really answered your post. I will give my opinion on
> >the DBA OCP exams.
> >PL/SQL is the hardest, Backup & Recovery is the easiest. Network Admin
> >is difficult only in the fact that there are so many questions on a
> >small subject (though in real life it causes a lot of problems).
> >I went for the OCP without any Oracle experience but lots of RDBMS
> >experience. I passed all of the exams on the first go and was able to
> >get a job as a DBA within 3 weeks of my last exam at about double my
> >old salary.
> >It is my experience that while there are a lot of DBA's out there.
> >There are very few who are true experts. I find that with the DBA's I
> >work with, I am able to contribute positively to my work and I do not
> >feel like a newbie.
> >The OCP basically says that you know the material that Oracle provides
> >for its DBA courses.
> >My advice would be to monitor the oracle usenet groups and keep track
> >of difficult questions. Also collect as many scripts off of the web as
> >possible. Study them and apply them at your work.
> >
> >Good Luck
> >
> >mnma
> >
> >
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> >Before you buy.
Received on Wed Jan 19 2000 - 08:48:53 CST